Yes, it was pretty good. It helped to not have the expectations I did for Moonrise Kingdom and I enjoyed it more.

Also saw Bad Words because free. It has some laughs in there, even some subtlety, and a good number of instances where an obvious/not great joke is handled in a surprisingly good way. It also has a bunch where those jokes are handled in a totally overdone way. It's ok. Still not fully over the Adam Sandler and Marlon Wayans trailers I had to sit through.

So i watched the wolf of wall street, and have to say i came away underwhelmed. Probably due to it being talked about by friends as the best movie in a long time, i thought it was over indulgent, repetitive, and disappointingly unoriginal in the fact it followed pretty much the exact form of other martin flicks. It wasnt bad but i for one wasnt blown away with it.

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So i watched the wolf of wall street, and have to say i came away underwhelmed. Probably due to it being talked about by friends as the best movie in a long time, i thought it was over indulgent, repetitive, and disappointingly unoriginal in the fact it followed pretty much the exact form of other martin flicks. It wasnt bad but i for one wasnt blown away with it.

I loved all the new heroes and villains from the comics they introduced in the movie. A lot of people probably will see it and not even realize who most of them are but I was geeking out pretty hard, haha

Captain America was pretty good, although the Hydra storyline took a while for me to get used to, just seemed a bit far fetched. Certainly among the best individual Marvel movies, but I wouldn't put it anywhere close to Avengers as some have.

Captain America was pretty good, although the Hydra storyline took a while for me to get used to, just seemed a bit far fetched. Certainly among the best individual Marvel movies, but I wouldn't put it anywhere close to Avengers as some have.

The thing about the Avengers to me: I love it, it's awesome to see all those iconic characters on the screen together fighting in an awesome visual effects mishmash at the end of the movie in New York.

The thing about Captain America 2 that stands far above the other Marvel movies: the thriller aspect, especially in the first half of the movie, is comparable to that of The Dark Knight movies, (esp the 2nd one). It's real choreography and stunts and explosions, not CGI so much. Car chases and man to man fights that are more down to earth and realistic feeling. The Avengers also lacks the character arc the other individual superhero films have - epecially Iron Man 1 (between the character development and the dialogue, Iron Man 1 is in many ways the top Marvel film). I liked the directing better in Cap 2 than the Avengers too.

Winter Soldier, in a nutshell, is arguably the best one to me. Certainly top 3. Probably top 2. I'll reserve judgement to call it the best until after I've seen it a bit more, but it was damn good and had elements that made Dark Knight so superior that the other Marvel movies lack.